asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what percentage of the sums allocated to help the construction industry in the past two years, have gone to South-West Yorkshire.

I regret that complete information is not available in the form requested. However, it is possible to identify the provisional allocations made to South and West Yorkshire from the £30 million for housing improvements announced in May 1977 and from the DOE share—some £56 million—of the housing and new towns part of the £100 million announced in July 1977. Sums for projects in the two counties are as follows:The Driffield bypass is the responsibility of Humberside County Council as local highway authority. I understand that an early public local inquiry is being arranged into the council's compulsory purchase and side road orders.